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My favourites are all from the Earth Elements family, plus Real Red, Perfect and Pale Plum, Elegant Eggplant, Always Artichoke. I buy them in Classic pads, and then some in Craft.
I love Earth Elements and Bold Brights, I have some of the others, but don't use them as much. I have the set of markers and all the spots in classic and craft. So I feel I have every thing I need. It is great to be able to use the pad, but in reality, we have our favorites and use them the most. Little by little you can add to your stash.
For the last three years, I've bought the In Color pads and have used those a lot while they are IN.
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I am a big fan of the spots - you can get all the colors, no compromising needed! I get the reinkers with them and I am good to go. I also love my Many Marvelous Markers so that I can color portions of stamps (like SU's Bundle Up! set if you check the gallery you will understand what I am talking about).
But I would say I use Real Red, all different shades of greens, especially Wild Wasabi which is unfortunately retired, Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, Brilliant Blue, Tempting Turquoise, Bashful Blue and White Craft the most from SU. I like Palette's Noir much better than Basic Black - which continues to look more purple than black to me.
Note - I am a hobby demowho does not do workshops if that matters.
If you're just starting, how about choosing colors that you most enjoy working with? If you're looking forward to fall items or holiday items, try colors that will be helpful with those projects. Maybe thinking of the first things you'd like to work on will enable you to make a better personal choice. ;)
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My only advice is to start slow---and avoid the black one. My black is so bad it comes out purple. At first I thought I must be doing something wrong but it is the pad---and I am not the only one who has had a bad black. I would pick another company for the black. I love Certainly Celery. And I just purchased the new Soft Suede---it is so pretty! But like others have said---the big thing is think about what you will be doing most--as in birthday cards for children, Christmas, Halloween or whatever and buy accordingly to start out with. Because even though the stamp pads last a long time the initial outlay of money adds up quickly (take that advice from someone who has been there, done that)
I have a number of the Earth Elements and Soft Subtles Classic pads since I tend make cards with these colors of cardstock, I must like'em. In the other color families I have Real Red, Glorious Green, Brilliant Blue, Green Galore, So Saffron and Always Artichoke. To start out I think Chocolate Chip and some type of waterproof black are must haves. When I started out I only used brown and black stamp pads and colored everything with markers. I like that SU has pads that match their cardstock. It helps keep me in check from going on CS spending sprees. Good Luck!
If you have stamps that need to be colored, then for sure get a black Stampin' Pad. I personally love the spots because you can get lots of colors for a reasonable price.
If you want to get the regular Stampin' Pads, I would look at the card stock colors you tend to use the most or want to use the most and go from there.
When I make card I tend to use the dynamic duos alot that are on the side of the colour wheel. Now when buying copics or prisma pencils I go for those colors first. HTH
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My Must-haves are the In Colors, Basic Black, Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie, Real Red, and Old Olive. With those you have reds, oranges, yellow, green, blue, purple, and neutrals. I use the blender pens to color my images with the ink pads and depending on how much ink you pick up you can change the tone of your coloring. Good luck! (The Stampin' Spots are a great buyif you want a lot of colors without buying the full size pads...the classic spots are $22.50 for a set of 12. Had I realized that when I first started stamping I would have bought those instead of full size pads to see my favorite colors...now I just have too many full size pads from all the familie sto justify getting the spots.
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Chocolate chip, Close to Cocoa, Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery, Sage Shadow, Almost Amethyist, Night of Navy and the retired blues...Cool Caribbean, Buckaroo Blue, Blue Bayou, & Baja Breeze. Since I purchased the markers I've had every color available, which is WONDERFUL.
I guess the ink pads to choose are those that match your most beloved paper combos. I love pink and brown, blue and brown and my newly found favorite combos....Barely Banana with Baja Breeze and Black and Sage Shadow with Chocolate Chip....Both of these are delicious together!!!
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I don't care so much about perfect matching, so I got light and dark in all the basic colors. Like red and dark red. Light pink, dark pink. That way I have any color I would want to use.
I have the markers if I MUST match for some reason.
I also have so odd pads that I purchases specifically for something- like for christmas cards.
I have them all. I purchased all 4 color families when I first became a demo with the 30% off. I always have to have all the in colors too. For Black I purchase the Pallette Ink Noir and True Black.
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Hope you don't mind if I jump in to this with other questions. What is the advantage to buying Classic verses Craft or Craft verses Classic? Can anyone tell me when the new In Colors come out every year? Is it the same month every year? This years is so cool, but I don't want to buy them if they have been out long. Thanks
Hope you don't mind if I jump in to this with other questions. What is the advantage to buying Classic verses Craft or Craft verses Classic? Can anyone tell me when the new In Colors come out every year? Is it the same month every year? This years is so cool, but I don't want to buy them if they have been out long. Thanks
Craft ink is more like paint; it's a pigment ink. You can stamp light colors on dark cardstock and it will show up. You can also emboss with it. However, it takes longer to dry and if you get too much ink on your stamp, you'll get a "smooshed" look to your image.
Classic inks are more like a stain; they are dye inks. They dry very fast and light colors won't show up on dark cardstock. They don't stay wet long enough to emboss with them, but if you "ink up" you stamp with Versamark first and then ink up with the classic ink you can emboss this way.
One is not really better than the other, they are just different.
The new In Colors came out on July 1 of this year. New colors will not be coming out until next summer, right around the same time. If you like the current colors, you should get them. They'll be around for another 10 months or so.
The Classic pads are great for card making and general stamping. The Craft pads are thicker and, from what I was told, better suited for scrapbooking and other papercrafting projects. The In Colors do not come out the same month of each year. I think that the last four In Color series came out in either January or July. Hope this helps you!
I use Earth Elements the most, they go with almost everything. For black (on the advice of my demo) I use Stayzon. I also have Soft Subtles that I use mainly for sponging and several of the Incolors. I love them all!
Just have the white in the Craft Ink but I'll get the spots of those since I want to start embossing.
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Now with the only one catalog a year the IN colors will only come out once a year.
Okay, just getting ready to finalize an order and want a baby blue and a baby pink. Would I order the Bashful Blue and Pretty in Pink from the soft subtles? The colors that I have--non SU--are too bold, too rosy, too green etc. I'm looking for a nice baby color. Hope that makes sense.
Papertrey Ink's sweet blush is a softer pink...perfect for a baby girl. Pretty in pink is still a little too bright for a baby card..for me at least. SU Bashful blue or Papertrey Ink's Spring Rain is perfect for a boy.
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Now with the only one catalog a year the IN colors will only come out once a year.
Okay, just getting ready to finalize an order and want a baby blue and a baby pink. Would I order the Bashful Blue and Pretty in Pink from the soft subtles? The colors that I have--non SU--are too bold, too rosy, too green etc. I'm looking for a nice baby color. Hope that makes sense.
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I started off with earth elements, neutrals, real red and tempting turquoise. I also buy the in-colors every year. A note of advise, everytime you invest in an ink pad buy the reinker!!
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